Andrew Slack

Senior Advisor at Avaaz. Co-founder of the Harry Potter Alliance (now Fandom Forward). Co-author of Save Santas Home.

[Andrew Slack @andrewslack]

This weekend marks a holy trifecta for the Abrahmic faiths.

Happy Ramadan, Happy Easter, and Happy Passover.

May we all work together for a world based in peace and renewal. ❤️❤️❤️

[Andrew Slack @andrewslack]

In 1986, DC Comics redesigned Lex Luthor as a billionaire businessman.

Their confirmed model? Donald Trump.

America elected its own supervillain. Twice.

But instead of asking how Trump won, it's time to ask what poison made him even possible.

Read: https://t.co/ii5JfWo3hp

[Andrew Slack @andrewslack]

I think this might be the best thing I’ve ever written.

About America’s Kryptonite: the poison in our constitutional DNA.

With the hope that there's still time to Make America Super.

I’d so be grateful if you’d read, discuss, and share!

https://t.co/pL8XR0es1z

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

💥The broadcast of Israeli 'Big Brother' was interrupted when @OmdimBeyachad protesters burst on stage wearing "We're Leaving Gaza!" T-shirts and declaring the end of business as usual.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.https://t.co/o4NpjHlJqZ

[Paul Levinson @PaulLev]

worth reading https://t.co/xPVOvQSq6F by @andrewslack & @joseiswriting in @THR #SupermanMovie

[Andrew Slack @andrewslack]

We made the front page of The Hollywood Reporter!

@joseiswriting and I explain why Superman has always been an immigrant—no matter what Fox News says.

https://t.co/xbIGOa0WnI

#SupermanIsAnImmigrant

[Jose Antonio Vargas @joseiswriting]

Superman is America’s conscience wearing a cape — and that terrifies MAGA because they’re supporting a real-life Lex Luthor.

Read my full piece on the Hollywood Reporter:

https://t.co/sVbSae0fUN

[Jose Antonio Vargas @joseiswriting]

Superman is America’s conscience wearing a cape — and that terrifies MAGA because they’re supporting a real-life Lex Luthor.

Read my full piece on the Hollywood Reporter:

https://t.co/sVbSae0fUN

[Jose Antonio Vargas @joseiswriting]

#SupermanIsAnImmigrant

They say Superman shouldn’t be political — but he always has been.

Read the full story in @THR

https://t.co/sVbSae0fUN

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

A few thoughts from the conversations I’ve been having and hearing over the last week:

The hard question isn’t the 2 points that would’ve decided the election. It’s how to build a Democratic Party that isn’t always 2 points away from losing to Donald Trump — or worse.

The Democratic Party is supposed to represent the working class. If it isn’t doing that, it is failing. That’s true even even if it can still win elections.

Democrats don’t need to build a new informational ecosystem. Dems need to show up in the informational ecosystems that already exist. They need to be natural and enthusiastic participants in these cultures. Harris should’ve gone on Rogan, but the damage here was done over years and wouldn’t have been reversed in one October appearance.

Building a media ecosystem isn’t something you do through nonprofit grants or rich donors (remember Air America?). Joe Rogan and Theo Von aren’t a Koch-funded psy-op. What makes these spaces matter is that they aren’t built on politics. (Democrats already win voters who pay close attention to politics.)

That there’s more affinity between Democrats and the Cheneys than Democrats and the Rogans and Theo Vons of the world says a lot.

Economic populism is not just about making your economic policy more and more redistributive. People care about fairness. They admire success. People have economic identities in addition to material needs.

Trump — and in a different way, Musk — understand the identity side of this. What they share isn’t that they are rich and successful, it’s that they made themselves into the public’s idea of what it means to be rich and successful.

Policy matters, but it has to be real to the candidate. Policy is a way candidates tell voters who they are. But people can tell what politicians really care about and what they’re mouthing because it polls well.

Governing matters. If housing is more affordable, and homelessness far less of a crisis, in Texas and Florida than California and New York, that’s a *huge* problem.

If people are leaving California and New York for Texas and Florida, that’s a *huge* problem.

Democrats need to take seriously how much scarcity harms them. Housing scarcity became a core Trump-Vance argument against immigrants. Too little clean energy becomes the argument for rapidly building out more fossil fuels. A successful liberalism needs to believe in *and deliver* abundance of the things people need most.

That Democrats aren’t trusted on the cost of living harmed them much more than any ad. If Dems want to “Sister Soulja” some part of their coalition, start with the parts that have made it so much more expensive to build and live where Democrats govern.

More than a “Sister Soulja” moment, Democrats need to rebuild a culture of saying no inside their own coalition.

Democrats don’t just have to move right or left. They need to better reflect the texture of worlds they’ve lost touch with and those worlds are complex and contradictory.

The most important question in politics isn’t whether a politician is well liked. It’s whether voters think a politician — or a political coalition — likes them.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Kamala was SO GOOD on SNL!!

Here is her full opening appearance:

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Live from New York, it's Saturday night.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris pulls ahead in state Donald Trump won twice

This is a stunning poll. But Ann Seltzer has as stellar a record as any pollster of forecasting election outcomes in her state.
Women are powering this surge. Portents for the country?? https://t.co/CNJfcQKXja

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

What I'm hanging on to is the knowledge that across America in these last days there are so so many devoted volunteers knocking on doors for Kamala.
Doing the work to keep democracy alive.
Proud to be one.

[Andrew Slack @andrewslack]

All roads to victory run through you, Pennsylvania! The country’s cheering for you to protect our future.

We need more heroic volunteers and PA voters to ensure that PA Saves us all!

#Heroes4Harris

https://t.co/HOF8mVLj3J

[Andrew Slack @andrewslack]

Loving this from @wkamaubell

We need to elect leaders who care about helping families, not controlling them.

#HarrisWalz2024InALandslide

[Jaime Madrigano @JMadrigano]

New op-ed written with collabo-friend @LeahSchinasi.
We discuss why housing policy is, in fact, climate policy. @JohnsHopkinsEHE @JohnsHopkinsSPH @drexelpubhealth @AmericanHealth

[Andrew Slack @andrewslack]

AMAZING TO SEE THIS BUFFY QUOTE USED IN THIS CONTEXT!!!!

[Heroes4Harris @heroes4harris]

Registering to vote is the pointy stake we can use to dust the dumbest big bad ever. #Heroes4Harris

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Your third place is your book club, your recreational softball team, your local bar — all spaces which don’t have any explicit obligation to hold you but to which you voluntarily and regularly go for nourishing human interaction.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

In his book The Great Good Place (1989), the sociologist Ray Oldenburg popularized the concept of “the third place,” or spaces that most nourish us outside of home and work.